Once you start a pollinator garden, it can become addictive. Finding new plants to keep hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, and other pollinators flocking to your yard becomes a mission. So, you will ...

Flowering stems of firecracker penstemon pop with color and add a burst of red flowers to landscapes in summer. Firecracker penstemon (Penstemon eatonii) is just one of about 270 species of penstemon, ...

Penstemons are among the most delightfully friendly plants of the spring garden; their nodding, bugle-shaped blooms announce that the peak time for flowering in Southern California gardens has arrived ...

A pale yellow and black Swallowtail butterfly pollinating in a garden full of purple Rocky Mountain Penstemon flowers. For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that they would consider protecting the tall western penstemon under the Endangered Species Act. The agency now has 12 months to ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force it to respond to a petition to protect a plant called ...